Do you think teenagers today always being on the internet will help develop them into becoming deeper thinkers or better writers later on in life? According to Amy Goldwasser, author of the article, “What’s the Matter with Kids today?” she states that more teenagers today would rather sit and play around with their electronics than do homework for school and that electronics seem to be taking over their lives (667). When teenagers seem to be more interested in their electronics such as the internet and texting, than they are with their school work and doing homework, Amy Goldwasser states that with having access to the internet also may make teenagers become deeper thinkers, and also may help them become better writers (669). For example, in agreement with Amy Goldwasser I have used the internet to obtain historical information and images for a high school social studies project. Just last week, my brother used the internet to download a copy of President Obama's State of the Union speech before it aired on television. Lastly, by using the internet, it helps strengthen children's typing skills and vocabulary skills. I have first-hand experience with how the internet has been beneficial to school work. For example, in my high school Social Studies class, I had to do a lot of historical projects, and one project I selected to work on was about Rosa Parks. I had to make a poster board all about her. When using websites like Wikipedia, the internet helped a lot with that project because it allowed me to learn more about Rosa Park’s background and find out all the reasons she was so important in life today. According to Amy Goldwasser she states that in a survey finding, that one in four teens could not identify Adolf Hitler’s role in world history (668). Even though one in four teens couldn’t identify Adolf Hitler, it wasn’t because they spend too much time on other electronics, it’s because schools and parents don’t take...

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Goldwasser starts out her essay by connecting multiple surveys done by Common Core and the National Endowment of the Arts with Doris Lessing’s Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech. These claim that the Internet is “the diminished role of voluntary reading in American life” (par. 2). She then contradicts these statements by saying teenagers now get their literary information online and that, “The Internet has turned teenagers into honest documentarians of their own lives” (par. 6).
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